Earlier this week WPGraphQL 1.0 got released. It adds a GraphQL server to WordPress. WPGraphQL →WPGraphQL Docs →
WPGraphQL – GraphQL Server for WordPress
8 Tips to Make Your Website Feel Like an iOS App
Very nice video by Sam Selikoff in which he sets up a web manifest to make his site feel more app-like. Great production quality. There are some tweaks I’d suggest though: Fixate the header using position: sticky; instead of position: fixed;. No need for that extra margin on the content then. Update: See note below …
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Is Apple silicon Ready?
Handy Single Serving Site to keep track whether certain apps run on the Apple silicon M1 or not. Is Apple Silicon Ready? →
Cybersecurity Final Exams
“Your grades have been stored on our department server and will be submitted tomorrow” — Brilliant! 😅 XKCD #2385: Final Exams →
dog, the command-line DNS client
dog is an open-source DNS client for the command-line. It has colourful output, supports the DoT and DoH protocols, and can emit JSON. With it supporting JSON (using the –json flag) you can easily pipe its output through the power tool jq dog, the command-line DNS client →
(t,i,x,y) => “creative code golfing”
Martin Kleppe has created tixy.land, “the most minimalist creative coding environment” as he calls it Control the size and color of a 16×16 dot matrix with a single JavaScript function. The input is limited to 32 characters – but no limits to your creativity! I especially like how the site starts off with some simple …
The Raven Technique: One Step Closer to Container Queries
Building further upon The Holy Albatross technique, comes The Raven Technique by Mathias Hülsbusch: I want to get closer to actual container queries! So, what does CSS have offer that I could tap into? I have a mathematical background, so functions like calc(), min(), max() and clamp() are things I like and understand. Next step: …
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Webbed Briefs – Brief videos about web technologies and how to make the most of them.
Heydon is back with a new project named “Webbed Briefs”: WEBBED BRIEFS are brief videos about the web, its technologies, and how to make the most of them. They’re packed with information, fun times™, and actual goats. Yes, it’s a vlog, but it isn’t on Youtube. Unthinkable! The first video is entitled “What Is ARIA …
Speed up build times with this little Git trick
When building applications on build pipelines like GitHub Actions, Google Cloud Build, CircleCI, etc. every second counts. Here’s this small trick I use to speed up build times: when cloning the repo from its Git source, I instruct Git to do a shallow clone of the single branch it is building. 💡 If you’re running …
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Visualizing Git Concepts with D3
This website is designed to help you understand some basic git concepts visually. This one would’ve come in handy back when I was teaching my students Git, in addition to the slides I used back then (2014). Visualizing Git Concepts with D3 →